We love to sing! Singing has so many benefits. Besides being fun and keeping us moving, the songs in the classroom are also teaching tools. Research shows that learning things like the continents, or the capitals of states is easiest if it is in rhyme or song form. Singing while reading also builds sight word recognition and fluency skills. Each week or so we add a song we have been singing to “Poetry and Song” folder. We re-read the folder with a buddy or by ourselves, highlight sight words and find rhyming words. As a bonus, we will have a collection of all the poems and songs that we learned in First Grade at the end of the year!
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